Monday, February 19, 2018

I know, I know, I followed the inspiration photo from CCC almost to a tee, but I thought it was so cute and thought it would make a good card.Thoughts?

The stack of books is from Stamplorations. The original image shows only three books with a coffee cup on top (see below). I decided to delete the cup, add a stack of books, and then finally add the bird.

The bow on up of the books is a separate element from the vertical twine holding the books 'together'. The tag is was placed under the bow and glued in place.

Hello All, For today I will be playing along with The Color Throwdown. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

I must admit getting the color close to the inspiration was well...Challenging!I either was too pink or too blue or too purple- I feel like I'm in the tale, The Three Bears. Until I got a satisfactory color. Getting a correct purple or pink hue is difficult. It always takes me a few tries before getting right.

The jar was outlined so nicely over the acetate, but the stems and blooms didn't stand out. All I saw was the jar. So, I took a small tipped Faber-Castell pen and traced the flowers. I wanted to keep them wispy and playful by carefully not creating bold, stark lines around the blooms.

Challenges Entered: The Color Throwdown: ctd480Well, that should do it for me!! Thank you so much for stopping by and do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. We will see you soon. Take care and happy stamping.

This card was almost done. All I had to do was stamp the 'for you' sentiment. It was all colored beautifully, distressing nice and even, and then it happened... I stamped the sentiment and it all went to &%#@!. I was beside myself, having to possibly throw away all the time I spent creating a beautiful card. Then Eureka! I will use the spotlight technique and try to salvage what is good. Quite honestly, I like it better than the original. It was a happy accident and a nice addition to the design.

Well, that should do it for me!! Thank you so much for stopping by and do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. We will see you soon. Take care and happy stamping.

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Oh how we all want to find our prince. Sometimes they come in the most unlikely places and sometimes you must kiss the frog to find the prince within.This card illustrates that point exactly!

The word 'kisses' were die cut out of glitter foam. I thought it was the perfect material to offset the golden crown settled on the frog.

The roses surrounding the frog represent love, for obvious reasons.I didn't color them in because I thought it would take away from our focal frog image but wanted to marry the color in the banner and the frog's lips.

A detailed look at our prince. The eyes look very dimensional but really I stamped the frog and filled the eyes in with an extra fine black pen. I also lightly traced the frog and added some ground for him to rest.

Friday, February 16, 2018

Distress kraft paper makes the brick wall. I dry embossed the brick then spread white ink all over the folder to get some color dimension. The brick was then distressed used Gelatos to add color to the wall.